b'ART & MEDIALITERATURELITERATURE A MIND SPREADOUT ON THE GROUNDby Alicia Elliott Searing prose is what critics are calling award-winning Haudenosaunee writer Alicia Elliotts new book A Mind Spread Out on the Ground. In her new work, Elliott offers her insight into the ongoing legacy of colonialism and in the process makes connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political. She is a Tuscarora writer from Six Nations of the Grand River living in Brantford, Ontario. Her writing has been published by The Malahat Review, Room, Grain, The New Quarterly, CBC, The Globe and Mail, Vice, Macleans, Todays Parent and Readers Digest, among others. Shes currently Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Fiddlehead, Associate Nonfiction Editor at Little Fiction | Big Truths and a consulting editor with The New Quarterly. Her essay, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, won Gold at the National Magazine Awards in 2017.ALL OUR RELATIONS:FINDING THE PATH FORWARDby Tanya Talaga This is the written version of the 2018 CBC Massey Lectures titledAll Our Relations: Finding the Path Forwardby author Tanya Talaga. In the work, she argues that the aftershocks of cultural genocide have resulted in a disturbing rise in youth suicides in Indigenous communities in Canada and beyond. Talaga writes that suicide is a new behaviour for First Nations people and that there is no record of any suicide epidemics prior to the establishment of the 130 residential schools across Canada. She previously wroteSeven Fallen Feathers, which tells the powerful story of the deaths of seven Indigenous youths in Thunder Bay.104 The Circle Winter Issue 1 2019'